It was the second year of the national crime mapping conference when we realized that, hey, there's a lot of not-just-good-but-great analytic work going in the then-young profession of crime analysis.  Seven years later, it's just getting more impressive. 

If you can only get to one national conference a year (we assume you're already going to the NICAR meetings), do this one every other year and the Special Libraries Association convention on the off year.  NOTE: NO NO NO registration fee!

Registration for the Ninth Crime Mapping Research Conference has opened.  This year, there will be no conference registration fees but registration is still required.  Preliminary conference details available on the MAPS website: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/maps/pittsburgh2007/index.html

The Ninth Crime Mapping Research Conference will take place March 28-31, 2007 at the Omni William Penn Hotel in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Agenda:

The conference will include a full compliment of workshops, panels and plenary sessions. The main plenary session is entitled GPS in a Crime Analysis Context- Practitioner Consideration, Research Needs." Panel session topics will include uses of spatial data analysis and GIS in corrections, parole, and probation, geography and crime, geographic profiling, offender travel behavior, NIBRS/incident-based data and mapping, international programs, impact of Hurricane Katrina on crime, crime analysis, spatial data analysis, policing issues, managing sex offenders, travel demand modeling, and more.  The conference also includes a map competition, and provides an excellent opportunity for researches and practitioners to network with each other.